Till now the featured rich AJAX was not crawled by search engines. But Google announced that now AJAX will be crawled . What benefit it can provide to SEO world
It means lazy Web developers will be able to justify their sloppy and shoddy excuses instead of actually learning how to code properly.
How do you code Ajax properly to make them crawl by Google? Javascript is never crawled no matter how good you code. And ajax can't be done server-side.. lol
Didn't you read the link in the OP's post? Google is working on a way to make Ajax crawlable and indexable by their spiders. They even talked about it on the Official Google Webmasters' blog.
can someone point me to a "quality website" that hides "useful content" behind AJAX. I am not looking for any of a number of e-commerce sites selling the same old, same old using AJAX for the purposes of eye candy. While I have an open mind on this, I will admit that the most useful examples of AJAX I am aware of are in places where user interaction is facilitated - like forms and such. Most everything else I see is eye candy that could, and probably should, be eliminated.
When it will come in practice (if they successful) then we will know, in the mean time follow the old traditional way.
Actually this is perfect timing. I was just about to ask this question is ajax scripts indexable since there really no code for them I develped a new script that would help me get alot of visitors but I designed teh script in ajax so it would load faster and smoother. That being said I would really like to know how this is possible and example that its actually being done.
And why is that? I am interested in hearing your insights into why Ajax should be indexable in the first place. Nigel
Yep, and I am still waiting for someone to show me a "quality website" that hides "useful content" behind AJAX.
FYI - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax-crawlable.html it gives more information regarding the same.
While I cannot give a good example of a site hiding content behind Ajax, I could see it being useful for things such as photo galleries and stuff where image indexing would work. And unfortunately, even though it probably shouldn't be there, a lot of people are going to code eye candy into their sites. The most notable place where I could see that becoming useful is for menus. I can (and do) see a lot of ajax menus, and indexing the links in those menus is going to help a lot of people out. I totally agree for a whole lot of reasons that it is not the best way to go, but unfortunately people are using it, and I doubt these people will change until something "shinier" comes along.